Sjursøya

Sjursøya is a peninsula located in Oslo, Norway.

A train accident occurred at Sjursøya on 24 March 2010, when a runaway set of 16 empty carriages belonging to CargoNet crashed into a terminal building at high speed.

[1] This incident caused 3 deaths and 4 injured persons.

The first element is the genitive form of the male name Sjur (from Norse Sigurðr) - the last element is the finite form of øy ('island').

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